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Arduino code which will communicate with the SparkFun Weather Shield (DEV-13956) to provide polling service to return time-series data in a JSON format.
- You are running either Linux or a Mac
- You have purchased 1x - SparkFun Weather Shield (DEV-13956) device.
- You have purchased 1x - Arduino Uno device.
- You have successfully assembled the Shield with the Arduino device and connected it through USB to your computer.
First step after having assembled the shield is you will need to download the Arduino IDE to your computer, please do so now. Afterwards open the IDE. You should see something as follows:
Then highlight all the code in the terminal and delete it. Afterwards please go to our sparkfunweathershield-adruino.ino to copy and paste the code in there into your Arduino IDE.
Please install the following libraries using the Arduino Library Manager:
Click save and save the file somewhere, afterwords click the Verify button and you should see a success message as follows:
If you have received the above message, please continue by clicking the Upload button. The IDE will compile and then upload to the device. Once uploaded the Arduino device is running with the code we've written! Let's test out our code, please click the Serial Monitor icon now:
Once you click it you should see the Serial Monitor as follows:
In the textfield, type in letter one (ex: 1) and hit Send. If everything works, you should see something like this:
Hurray! You have successfully connected and polled your first data from the SparkFun Weather Shield (DEV-13956) device. We're not finished yet, close the Serial Monitor, go to the menu and click port. When you open the menu please write down the URL path of the Arduino Uno device.
For example, on my screen the value is /dev/cu.usbmodem14401.
Please save your value as you will need it! More specifically, you'll need it in the serialreader-server code repository.
This code is designed to provide a polling service interface which is consumed by the serialreader-server application. Please see that repository on details for usage.
This application is licensed under the ISC License. See LICENSE for more information.